振文書院 Zhen Wen Academy
振文書院位於興農西路與文昌路口，其前身為文昌帝君祠，建於1797年〈清嘉慶二年〉禮奉文昌梓潼帝君，文衡帝君，孚佑帝君，朱衣帝君，綠衣帝君，俗稱五大文昌帝君；鎮民稱其為「文祠廟」，文祠內曾設「振文社」與「菼社」「義孚社」等社團。供愛好詩詞的文人雅士聚會。1812年（嘉慶17年），振文社王有成等倡議成立書院，廖澄河等士紳熱心捐資興建，次年告成，樑上懸有1813（嘉慶癸酉）年梅月古匾，寫著「千秋書祖」字，為雲林縣碩果僅存的書院。1985年由內政部正式列為三級古蹟，並撥款維修，補建山川門一座，1989年完竣，是西螺最珍貴的文化資產。
Zhen Wen Academy was built in 1797 right at the intersection of Xingnong West Rd and Wenchang Rd as an ancestral hall of the Gods of Literature (Wenchang Gods). It is a tribute to Wenchang Zitong, Wenheng, Fuzhu, Zhuyi and Luyi, which are the popular names referred to the Five Great Divinities of Literature. Local people call this place “Wen Ci Miao” (“Ancestral Temple of Literature). The “Literature Bracing Society” was established there, but also the “Zeal Society” and the “Inspiring Confidence in Justice Society”- societies where the men of letters and refined scholars whose hobby was poetry and lyrics could meet. In 1812, when the president of the “Literature Bracing Society” achived the success and suggested to found an academy of classical learning, Liao Chenghe and other people from the local gentry were enthusiastic in donating money to build it. Works were completed one year later. During the same year an ancient fullmoon-shaped plum board was hanged on a roof beam and the inscription on it declaimed “thousands-falls-old book ancestral hall”. In Yunlin county there are not anymore many academies of classical learning because of the change of the schoolar system.
In 1985 the Ministry of the Interior officially classified it as a third level historic site, and even allocated the necessary funds to mantain it and to build landscape-adorned doors. They were completed in 1989, turning the academy in Xiluo’s most valuable cultural asset.
